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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 917, 8 March 1957, Page 16

AN ANNOUNCEMENT FROM The NZ DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH Kitchen Tidy 66 59 After you, Madam; said the cockroach 66 to the fy, we re dining out tonight" This pair of visitors can bring A good cheaper spray is an sickness to your table ~food arsenic sheep dip mixed I poisoning: Imagine, a single part to 75 parts of water: Ay can be loaded with six Burn or bury garden refuse: and a half million germs and Scatter grass clippings thinly: bacteria 1 The cockroach, too, fouls food: Don't play In the house keep food and host to these uninvited guests: food utensils covered. Paint or spray your walls, window- Keep an eye open for their sills and places where flies rest breeding places. Flies can and crawl with insecticide produce half a million off- paint: Wage constant war- spring in a week or two. fare on the invader with They breed in garden waste, space sprays, traps, fyswats. compost heaps, outdoor toil- ets carelessly kept; animals' Cockroaches breed in cracks dung any decaying matter and crevices and like damp, where they can lay eggs. dark places near cupboards, THESE PLACES MUST BE KEPT basins and sinks where they CLEAN: Your compost heap can forage for food and should be stripped and turned liquid. Leave no vestige of in six inches all the way food about at night: Paint- round every week SO that ing skirtingboards with in- eggs and maggots will be secticide paint helps get rid of destroyed in the hot centre_ them and is usually effective Powder it with Io% D DT: for several months: Flies and Cockroaches contaminate food ! 8.6